Planning: Beyond Ice

由于气候变化，北极变暖的速度是其他任何地区的四倍，但除了该地区的当地社区外，这种变暖的影响并不广为人知。阿拉斯加太平洋大学(APU)将组织一个为期一年的规划项目，以进一步发展与阿拉斯加育空河沿岸正在经历气候危机的环境和社会影响的四个土著社区的关系。Beyond Ice项目旨在通过分享他们关于适应能力的故事、在急剧变化的条件下生活的挑战以及通过这一过渡展望未来的故事，放大育空地区沿线当地社区的声音。从项目设计到实施和评估，新兴的知识联合生产模式是《超越冰》所有部分的支点。这些伙伴关系涉及从内陆到白令海的阿拉斯加心脏地带的鹰村、努拉托村、俄罗斯使团村和努纳姆伊夸村。有了这笔规划赠款，土著社区成员、艺术家、科学家、博物馆和评估者将制定计划，共同产生具体成果，设想：(1)基于当地和土著视角的互动社区艺术展，(2)在安克雷奇博物馆的北方视角节上的教育艺术体验，以及(3)以成人课程为特色的STEM教育项目。规划进程将建立设计和实施以公平和包容为基础的可行的联合制作模式所需的关键伙伴关系。这笔规划赠款将支持通过摄影、声音、视频和纪录片方法制定针对故事的有形框架，以便以多种方式了解情况，并审查、支持和增强社区成员、老年人，特别是年轻人的能力。土著社区、科学家和博物馆之间的合作目标是为正在进行的研究提供快速传播，并强调共同创造知识，以便更有效地向公众传播这项宝贵的工作。Beyond Ice最终将为育空北极土著社区提供一个平台，分享其边界以外的土著观点。Beyond Ice的包容性进程支持多个社区成员、老年人和年轻人，使每个人都能够参与共同制作知识，突出土著对不断变化的北极的观察。该奖项由地球科学局的极地计划办公室和STEM教育局的推进非正式STEM学习(AISL)计划共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Arctic is warming four times faster as a result of climate change than any other region, but the impacts of this warming are not well known beyond the local communities in the region. The Alaska Pacific University (APU) will organize a one-year planning project to further develop relationships with four Indigenous communities along the Alaskan Yukon River who are experiencing environmental and social impacts from the climate crisis. The Beyond Ice project aims to amplify the local community voices along the reach of the Yukon by sharing their stories of resilience, challenges of living in drastically changing conditions and visioning of a future through this transition. The emerging paradigm of knowledge co-production is the fulcrum for all parts of Beyond Ice; from project design to implementation and evaluation. The partnerships involve the villages of Eagle, Nulato, Russian Mission, and Nunam Iqua which span the heart of Alaska from the interior to the Bering Sea. With this planning grant, Indigenous community members, artists, scientists, museums, and evaluators will develop plans to co-produce concrete outcomes, envisioning: (1) interactive community art exhibits based on local and Indigenous perspectives (2) educational art experiences at Anchorage Museum’s Northern Perspectives Festival, and (3) a STEM education program featuring K-Adult curricula. The planning process will build critical partnerships required to design and implement a viable co-production model rooted in equity and inclusion. This planning grant will support development of tangible frameworks aimed at stories through photography, sound, video, and documentary methods in order to engage in multiple ways of knowing and to examine, support, and empower multiple community members, elders, and especially young people. The goal of collaborations between Indigenous communities, scientists and museums is to provide rapid dissemination of ongoing research studies and highlight the co-production of knowledge for more effectively communicating this invaluable work to the public. Beyond Ice will ultimately provide Yukon Arctic Indigenous communities with a platform to share Indigenous perspectives beyond their borders. Beyond Ice’s inclusive process supports multiple community members, elders, and young people, empowering each to engage in the co-production of knowledge highlighting Indigenous observation of the changing Arctic. This award is co-funded by the Office of Polar Programs in the Directorate of Geosciences and the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program in the Directorate for STEM Education.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.